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10-04-2013

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still there

Quote:

Originally Posted by Don Cragun

Actually, you can kill zombies; they just won't notice that they've been killed (again).

Code:

kill 0 pid_of_zombie

will complete successfully telling you that the zombie hasn't been reaped yet.

Code:

kill TERM pid_of_zombie

will send a SIGTERM signal to the zombie and will complete successfully (assuming you have permission to send a signal to that process), but the zombie will never notice that the signal was sent nor be able to act upon that signal.

Code:

phantom [/home/petey/TEST-SAVE-2013]
$ ps -ef |grep efu
    root 27333  2564  0 07:40:26 ?         0:00 <defunct>
   petey 27347 12092  0 07:41:23 pts/tk    0:00 grep efu

phantom [/home/petey/TEST-SAVE-2013]
$ sudo kill 27333
Password:
Last successful login:       Thu Oct  3 15:12:59 PDT 2013 phantom
Last authentication failure: Mon Sep 23 16:03:31 PDT 2013 phantom
kill: 27333: no such process

phantom [/home/petey/TEST-SAVE-2013]
$ ps -ef |grep efu
    root 27348  2564  0 07:41:26 ?         0:00 <defunct>
   petey 27352 12092  0 07:41:45 pts/tk    0:00 grep efu

phantom [/home/petey/TEST-SAVE-2013]
$ top -n 1




System: phantom                                       Fri Oct  4 07:41:57 2013
Load averages: 0.07, 0.06, 0.06
375 processes: 334 sleeping, 40 running, 1 zombie
Cpu states:

zombie is still there.. help... i am not allowed to issue kill -9 on this server, i'll get fired. your thoughts?

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